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Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
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20 Protest Songs for Today's Occupy Everything

Nov 2, 2011, 10:00am PopMatters
The Occupy Everything movement continues to grow and build strength. Here are 20 of the highlights from our 2007 protest songs series that remain as relevant as ever and could well be a soundtrack for our times. Check out the full series, "PopMatters Picks: Say It Loud! 65 Great Protest Songs". Ludwig van BeethovenSymphony No. 9 in D Minor, 4th Movement (1824) Whether Beethoven's adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" was actually intended as any sort of protest remains open to debate -- the origins of the theory seem to center on an editor's [...]
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Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Feb 16, 2011, 4:27pm SqueezeMyLemon
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Guardian Billie Holiday's 1939 song about racist lynchings stunned audiences and redefined popular music. In an extract from 33 Revolutions Per Minute, his history of protest songs, Dorian Lynskey explores the chilling power of Strange Fruit
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Guest Writer birdantony Presents... Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday!

Oct 13, 2009, 9:30am T S U R U R A D I O
Guest Writer birdantony Presents... Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday! Let's keep this going, eh? Another guest writer!!! Our 6th in a series of guest writers from our beloved communities found in Our Society , on the Facebooks , and in the Twitter . Man, I'm one lucky bastard. What about you? Got an album you are just dying to talk about, a show you saw, a mixtape you've been aching to share? Come on in, hang out with us, [...]
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Artist:Aaron
Title:Strange fruit
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Artist:Billie Holiday
Title:Strange Fruit
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Artist:Jazz - Nina Simone
Title:Strange Fruit
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Year:2000
Artist:Jeff Buckley
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Artist:Robert Wyatt
Title:Strange Fruit
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Artist:Siouxsie And The Banshees
Title:Strange Fruit
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Artist:The Twilight Singers
Title:Strange Fruit
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Artist:Tori Amos
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Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit"

Sep 9, 2009, 5:34pm Stark Online
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Not to depress you at the end of yet another Wednesday, but this is one of the most enthralling musical videos YouTube has to offer. Billie Holiday, holding back tears to bring us "Strange Fruit." I was attempting to write a description of this video, but no one word or string of words can really summarize what's going on here. So I will leave it at that.
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Countdown: Top 10 Musical Civil Rights Moments

Jan 19, 2009, 8:08am EAR FARM
Countdown: Top 10 Musical Civil Rights Moments Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. day , a holiday that is observed on the third Monday of January each year around the time of the birthday of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15th). In addition to being an ordained clergyman, King was an activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy stems from the nonviolent protests he led against racial discrimination in United States federal and state law. Though he was assassinated in 1968, he will forever be regarded as one of the great icons in the history of human rights and [...]
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New Nas video

Jun 10, 2008, 3:25am OregonLive.com: Pop Music
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
This video absolutely blew me away. Fair warning: There's a lot of strong language here -- I'm not even posting the song's title just yet. But it's an amazing dissection of race and its artificial constructions, intelligent and unsparing. And...
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